Law Quotes - Page 314

I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise every way possible. And with a good legal argument, you have to see all sides to get the best line of argument for your client. Law school made me a better comic, and comedy has made me a better public speaker.

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.

What we project, we get back.

No doubt, you've got a parliament now - I mean, Malcolm Turnbull says he'll work with the parliament he's got. He's got a parliament where a majority of the members of parliament want that law to be changed. He's got a parliament where there's a majority in each House who have publicly said they want to have a Royal Commission into banks.

The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law.

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.

Love is the ultimate outlaw.

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

The real debate is we've had an activist court, and the American people don't want an activist court. And the real fear from those who might oppose Samuel Alito is that he'll bring the court back within a realm where the American people might want us to be with a Supreme Court; one that interprets the law, equal justice under the law, but not advancing without us advancing, the legislative body advancing, ahead of him.